How to Find a Radio Stream URL in myTuner

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myTuner Radio is Appgeneration’s radio app, past 10 million downloads on Google Play. Behind every station there is an ordinary web address, and the app doesn’t show it to you. Network capture does. I took the address of its Classic Rock Station and played it in Chrome: audio/aac, 44.1 kHz stereo, no app involved. The same address goes into VLC, a car stereo with web radio, or anything else that plays a URL.

myTuner playing Classic Rock Station, with a track title in its player bar — Before: the station plays, the address stays hidden

Chrome's audio player at 0:11, playing the stream from surfernetwork.com — After: the same station in Chrome, 11 seconds in

Open myTuner in CheatDroid, tap Traffic and then Start capture. The app restarts. Close its Premium offer with the X at the top right and tap your station. It may stay silent, which is fine: during a capture CheatDroid waits for a response to end before passing it on, and a radio stream never ends.
Go back to CheatDroid and tap the search icon. Type stream, or listen, .mp3 or .aac if nothing comes up: every station has its own host, and those are the usual words in the address.
The station’s stream among the app’s traffic
Open the row and tap the left of the three icons at the top, Copy URL.
The address, and the icon that copies it
Tap Stop capture. Paste the address into your browser or player and press play.

What else I found

Copy the address you tapped, not the one under location. That one carries a token good for 60 seconds, and the first address hands out a new one each time.
A row can read 302 or ERR, and its address still works. ERR only means capture stopped while the stream ran.
Capture and Copy URL are free.
Tested on myTuner 10.0.5.

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